You write a Perl script to do it for you, of course! Learn about the basics of writing Perl statements with this script walk-through.

There are numerous ways to redirect standard error in a Perl script. You can redirect the output from one particular command, you can combine standard error with ...

To skip over blanks lines in a perl script, you have several choices. You could use a “next if /^$/” (skip if empty) command or a “next if /^s*$/” skip if empty or only white space.

I looked around for a bit, but didn't find much to suit my needs, but as perl goes, i'm sure there are 400 different better ways to do what i'm doing. I have another perl script running, but its a ...

Since Perl and Python are designed for different programming environments, you may need to build a function that will only run in Perl, but need to integrate it with your Python code.